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@studiousandrogynousfox-blog that's Stanisław Lem indeed! I only started reading Eden today, so it's too early to say anything about it other than I've heard it's great 😅 I'm actually pretty new to his stuff (yes I'm Polish. Yes I like sf novels. Shhh) but I read Solaris earlier this year and I really liked it, my only complaint being that I found one of the characters annoying lol

22 November 2024

Studying instrumental analysis in between my measurements in thesis lab this Wednesday. // Reading on the train to my uni city today.

I finished doing all the planned measurements for one of my compounds this week. I've gathered a daunting amount of data that I now have to process and analyze and turn into sections of concise writing... I hope the rest of this academic year won't be just writing - I'd miss my thesis lab an awful lot, boring as it can get sometimes

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22 November 2024

Studying instrumental analysis in between my measurements in thesis lab this Wednesday. // Reading on the train to my uni city today.

I finished doing all the planned measurements for one of my compounds this week. I've gathered a daunting amount of data that I now have to process and analyze and turn into sections of concise writing... I hope the rest of this academic year won't be just writing - I'd miss my thesis lab an awful lot, boring as it can get sometimes

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it keeps getting gloomier

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So I'm taking this class called molecular driving forces and it's something like stat mech for chemistry and it blows my mind like every week. Today the professor asked us why heat flows from warm objects to cold objects and everyone was like entropy! Temperature! Equilibrium! and he was like yeah yeah but what's it really about when you get to the bottom of it? And the answer was statistics - because the number of states in which these two bodies are in a thermal equilibrium is much (like, much) greater than the number of states in which they aren't, and so thermal equilibrium is the most probable outcome. And the thing that decks me every time is that it's always statistics, it's all statistics.

So anyway, every week I'm like WHOA THIS IS WHY I CHOSE A SCIENCE DEGREE and if you're also a science student (or used to be one) please reblog and add your moments of awe at the beautiful complexity of our universe pretty please!! I want to read your stories! Science appreciation chain!!

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So I'm taking this class called molecular driving forces and it's something like stat mech for chemistry and it blows my mind like every week. Today the professor asked us why heat flows from warm objects to cold objects and everyone was like entropy! Temperature! Equilibrium! and he was like yeah yeah but what's it really about when you get to the bottom of it? And the answer was statistics - because the number of states in which these two bodies are in a thermal equilibrium is much (like, much) greater than the number of states in which they aren't, and so thermal equilibrium is the most probable outcome. And the thing that decks me every time is that it's always statistics, it's all statistics.

So anyway, every week I'm like WHOA THIS IS WHY I CHOSE A SCIENCE DEGREE and if you're also a science student (or used to be one) please reblog and add your moments of awe at the beautiful complexity of our universe pretty please!! I want to read your stories! Science appreciation chain!!

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📑🍪🍵🪴 - spent the past few days studying for upcoming exams/final projects and frequenting my favorite cafe ☁️

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Sometimes I feel so bad about myself and think I'm stupid and know nothing about chemistry, but then I remember some of the stories that our nuclear chem professor tells us in class about his first years (he also teaches fundamentals of chemistry lab).

Like the one where the students were supposed to perform an acid-base titration and one of them added NaOH with phenolphthalein both to the beaker and the burette. And actually proceeded to attempt a titration. They were surprised nothing happened. They accused the professor of maliciously giving them a bad sample!

Or the one where a student said, "professor, sometimes you say 'K plus' or 'Ca two plus' or 'Al three plus' - how do you know that? Can you give us some table we could memorize?" A TABLE OF ION CHARGES TO MEMORIZE ANSJDKIDKSN 😭

He tells them about a mistake in their lab report and how to fix it. They resubmit it THREE TIMES saying they corrected it. The mistake is still there. (Prof looked at us with sheer despair and went, "What am I supposed to do with this person?")

You could say, "oh! So then you feel better, right?" No, then I feel chemistry is doomed.

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My thesis supervisor: I've been thinking about something you said last week - that you aren't sure if you're going to do a master's degree. I believe you mean you're considering moving to another city?

Me: ...no. I'm not sure if I'm going to do a master's at all.

Him: why not?

Me: I worry it'll be too hard for me.

Him: [gives me a long look] Do you hear yourself?

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I finished doing all the measurements for one of my crystals today (🥳) and my professor was telling me what we're going to do next and that we definitely aren't going to use ALL of my crystals for my bachelor's thesis bc there isn't enough time and he was like "but don't worry, they won't go to waste, we'll just use them sometime in the future" like 🥹 He didn't say that half jokingly, he simply stated what is a fact to him, that we're going to work with some of my compounds after my bachelor's bc I'll still be around - to do a master's. Ok ok okok o-

My thesis supervisor: I've been thinking about something you said last week - that you aren't sure if you're going to do a master's degree. I believe you mean you're considering moving to another city?

Me: ...no. I'm not sure if I'm going to do a master's at all.

Him: why not?

Me: I worry it'll be too hard for me.

Him: [gives me a long look] Do you hear yourself?

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One of my thesis supervisor's first year students has just addressed me by the formal you like omg no child I'm not that old 🥲

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19.11.24 || wind & rain

In true me-fashion, I spent most of my day thinking about what needs doing instead of doing it. As a little treat, I will watch Andrew Scott play every role in Vanya.

BauR flashcards

Have lunch with a friend

StaatsR flashcards

Write short story

All the best

AJ

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| 19 november 2024 |

it's been quite gloomy the past week but the rain is nice, I did my quantum homework but I'm starting to feel defeated about this class since he doesn't give solutions to the homework and I can't figure out where I'm going wrong 🥲

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actually studying in the library for once 😊 and yes, i did spend five minutes drawing those gorgeous field lines instead of being productive

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November at uni ☁️

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Me: [explains how I used to be exceptionally smart as a kid and that I feel like garbage now that I'm in uni and my grades aren't perfect]

My psychiatrist: if you were smart as a child then you're just a smart person. Uni is just harder than school. Also, grades don't measure your knowledge accurately

Me:

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Hey Lena, just popping by to ask if you're on storygraph by any chance? 🙈 (I ask bc i finally caved and got one and was hoping to follow some of my moots on there... This is @studentbyday btw 😅)

Hi! I'm not; I'm thinking about getting it sometimes but then I also think about all the great (and very bad...) books that I already read that deserve a rating from me and I get overwhelmed lol 🫥

@studentbyday tagging you in my answer as well bc I'm not sure if tumblr will notify you otherwise :)

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After a fun weekend there is a lot of studying/catching up to do!! ✨🥹📙📝